In the UK we used to have a tv programme called Swap Shop where kids could offer to exchange something they no longer wanted for something they were after, I was hooked!
Always loved climbing the stairs to bed on Christmas Eve, always in a new nightie that my Mum had bought me specially, and always with a pillowcase over my shoulder in the hope that Santa would stuff it full with lots of pressies. Magically, he always did.
Oh yes, I have to mention Percy, my cuddly penguin who came everywhere with me. Still have him, but now he lives in the back of a bedroom drawer!
Happy Days!! X
I loved growing up at the beach. Summers were exciting with all your friends coming back to their cottages, fourth of July with bomb fires at every seawall and falling asleep to the sound of crashing waves.
Sunday dinners at my grandmothers house, then a walk on the beach to collect seaglass
Sunday mornings going to the donut shop in the morning and the old fashion penny candy store in the afternoon
My pink Huffy bike with bananna seat so you could always ride with a friend
Love this threat!!! took me back to those amazing days when everything was perfect and the worst thing in your life was a friend not wanting to play with you!
For me i loved going every wednesday to my Grandma´s house where all my cousins will be at and playing outside all day long, we were obsesed with this kids mistery books that was called El Club de los siete and we always maked up this adventures that we had to do to safe someone or dicover a tresure. Those days we all seven of us get in the car with my grandpa and he would take us to buy one candy for each, i remember it like the best treat you could have ever even tho it was the same as the ones my mom would buy us.
Playing in the rain getting all wet and muddy. Selling Mangos at the front of my Grandma´s house and people actually buying them even though they probably had Mango Trees at their houses as well. Playing soccer with my cousins on the golf yard (My Grandma´s house its just in front of a golf course and we would jump the fence and play soccer there jajajajjajaja)
Going camping with my mom and she making fun games the whole long ride (9 hours or so) till we got there (no PSP or portable DVD player to distract the kids.
i could go for hours!!!
Growing up with George Washington.
Cutting down his dads prize cherry tree.
Then, removing the plug from his boat just before he crossed the Potomac
There were so many great kids programs - Captain Pugwash, Hairbear Bunch, Rubarb & Custard to name but a few. Plus lots of great sweets that are not made any more!!!! Penny chews, sherbet dip........... the list goes on. Was the world a safer place then or do I just think it was????
Isolation - A Tale Of Star-Crossed Lovers
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hartclass & CumGirl
Having my Grampa yell for me to get the dog just me and him at a moments notice going for a ride in the old truck. Never had any idea where we were going but we drove around for hours sometimes. I guess till today that's why I just wander with no place in mind on my bike.
Camping with my Grandparents oh and my grandmas food *drooling* That has to be the number one thing I miss
“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”~Frank Sinatra~
Seeing my Dad capsize in his small sailing boat over and over, rainy holidays in Scotland, learning how to apply mascara by watching my 'very grown up' cousin, snogging at the New Year's Eve party in the village hall whilst thinking my parents weren't watching, seeing my Brother get told off for his 'oh so bad' school reports and knowing mine would put him to shame, sneaking a peak in my parents secret hidden drawer, watching Dad salt the slugs in his allotment, learning all the really bad swear words, trying to blow on a cigarette and wondering why I couldn't exhale any smoke - I could go on .............
Spending summer days at the community pool with friends and listening to my transistor radio. Nothing like the days of AM-only radio!
Great topic LM!
I can remember going fishing with my grandmother and great-grandmother all day, then having a fish fry that night.
Building 'forts' in the woods with the neighborhood kids.
Impromptu softball games in the field behind our barn.
Saturday morning cartoons were a must!!!
My dad buying me a go cart. I had such a blast on that thing!
Lugging a large case of Barbie dolls and doll clothes around to friends houses so we could all share our stuff, and play for hours and hours.
I can remember fishing with grandpa every other day. Watching Saturday morning cartoons. Mowing the grass with my brothers. And riding my bike all over town with friends.
4th of July fireworks! Corn on the cob dripping in butter. Burgers right off the grill to go with. All the family and friends around. For some reason, it's more relaxed with the 4th and at Thanksgiving.
Wow 102? Is that all? I'm sorry Alan. In that case looks like you don't have far to go, poor guy.
Sneaking the radio under the covers to listen to the Harley Show after I was supposed to be asleep, and reading Tom Swift by the glow from the tubes. If Harley wasn't on, I'd listen to Moondog (Alan Freed on the AM skip. Sometimes I couldn't get him (The New York to Maryland AM skip was always a ittle iffy)and had to settle for WOWO out of Fort Wayne Indiana. I still love AM radio, (hate the all-talk formats though) and get my jonses fixed by listening to European shortwave broadcasts.
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster
We were watching a movie from 1975 last night and noticed something about all the kids in the background scenes. Out of maybe 100 kids 1 of them would be a little chunky. Funny how riding bikes, playing outside with friends and only watching cartoons for a couple of hours on Saturday keep the childhood obesity problem at bay. So are kids better off with all the video games, computers and 400 channels on TV? Or were they better without all that and played with friends all the time.
I liked playing King of the Mountain, tag, hide and seek, and baseball sometimes basketball and football. Can you remember any games you played?
no responsibility, going out for hours with friends , swimming naked in the local river
There's so many things I LOVED mostly being a kid Running around the neighborhood with friends til the street lights came on, Going to the playgrounds all DAY, Waking up early on sat. eating breakfast while watching fraggle rock, looney toons n all the other stuff that came on then back out side.